Alumni nameAmbrose Ruyooka
Graduation year1990
Role / achievementPMP Professional working in ministry of ICT
In February 1984 a boy of twelve walked twenty-six kilometres from his village to a school in Kagongo with no electricity, no fence and no gate. He stayed six years.
This is what he found: six dormitories and a seventh called Tiger House; strikes over yellow posho; lanterns named after a volcano; a statue that became a proverb; and a headmaster who went to Makerere to find Physics teachers because everyone said a rural school could not have any.
Written for the diamond jubilee of Ibanda Secondary School, it is one old boy’s account of an education assembled out of almost nothing, by people who decided that it would be
This is what he found: six dormitories and a seventh called Tiger House; strikes over yellow posho; lanterns named after a volcano; a statue that became a proverb; and a headmaster who went to Makerere to find Physics teachers because everyone said a rural school could not have any.
Written for the diamond jubilee of Ibanda Secondary School, it is one old boy’s account of an education assembled out of almost nothing, by people who decided that it would be